Anime appropriation: hip hop, house and virtual bands
Anime and hip hop are unlikely bedfellows; both borrow from sundry sources, putting existing pieces together to form something fresh. Hip hop, as well as sampling music from [...]
Akira
Review: Punch Line Season 1
With Punch Line, Studio MAPPA’s original comedy ecchi, there is a sense of the creative team throwing everything at the wall and seeing what sticks. In the first episode [...]
Event: Akira to screen in cinemas across UK to celebrate 25 years of Manga Entertainment
Manga UK have been bringing us all manner of anime goodness for 25 years, and Akira‘s resounding success was the catalyst that brought Manga Video (as they were then [...]
News: Blade Runner visions of live-action Akira flood early director’s concepts
Akira‘s live-action interpretation has been stuck in development hell at least since 2002, when it was first publicly announced. Since then, various directors have [...]
Fast and Furious’ Justin Lin could direct live-action Akira
As his latest film Star Trek Beyond, the third in the Trek reboot series, approaches its opening day of July 22nd, director Justin Lin is reportedly in talks with Warner [...]
News: Cast from Haikyu!! and JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure join Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan
A new batch of cast has joined the anime adaptation of Shuichi Aso’s psychic comedy Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan, following close behind the commercial promo video which was [...]
Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan anime previewed in 1st commercial trailer
The official website for the anime adapting Shuichi Aso’s Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan is now streaming an ad which introduces Kusuo Saiki and his ESPer woes. Though he [...]
Anime eyes becoming too complex for professional artists to cope with
Ask any anime or manga fan which one feature marks the art style out from the crowd, and they’d be almost certain to mention those big eyes which go back to Osamu [...]
News: Naruto Shippuden’s Satoshi Hino joins cast of Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan
Two more cast have joined the ESPer blunders of the anime adapting Shuichi Aso’s manga Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan, and this year’s 25th issue of Weekly Shonen [...]
News: Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan anime announces two new cast
Two more cast have joined the team for the anime adaptation of Shuichi Aso’s ESPer comedy manga Saiki Kusuo no Psi Nan. Ai Kayano, who voiced Inori Yuzuriha and Mana [...]
